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Primary Mark<br />
VETERANS<br />
COMMUNITY<br />
ADMIN. &<br />
COACHES<br />
WOODSON<br />
LAMBEAU RECORDS &<br />
DRAFT &<br />
MISC. FIELD HISTORY 2008 REVIEW FREE AGENTS<br />
CHARLES<br />
WOODSON<br />
CORNERBACK<br />
MICHIGAN<br />
PRO BOWLS: 5<br />
1998, 1999, 2000,<br />
2001, 2008<br />
Entering his 12th year<br />
in the <strong>NFL</strong> and fourth<br />
in Green Bay, remains<br />
a premier cornerback who is beginning to sprinkle his<br />
name around the franchise record book…Earned secondteam<br />
All-Pro honors and his fifth career Pro Bowl bid in<br />
PRO<br />
career<br />
2008 – his first since four straight Pro<br />
Bowl seasons to begin his career (1998-<br />
2001) with Oakland…Since signing with<br />
the Packers as their prized unrestricted<br />
free agent in 2006, has intercepted 19 passes in three seasons<br />
– more than half his career total of 36 – and scored<br />
five of his seven career touchdowns…His first season in<br />
Green Bay was his best statistically, setting career highs<br />
with eight interceptions and 26 passes defensed in ’06…<br />
Followed that up with four interceptions and two touchdowns<br />
(one on a fumble return) in ’07, earning Pro Bowl<br />
alternate status, and then tied for the NFC lead with teammate<br />
Nick Collins by picking off seven passes (returning<br />
two for scores) and tallying a career-high three sacks last<br />
season, despite playing most of it with a broken toe…Became<br />
just the fifth Packers player since 1940 to have at<br />
least seven interceptions in two different seasons, joining<br />
Darren Sharper (’00, ’02), Willie Wood (’62, ’70), Bobby<br />
Dillon (’53 through ’57) and Don Hutson (’42 and ’43)…<br />
Also joined Collins and Tramon Williams to be<strong>com</strong>e the<br />
first Green Bay trio with at least five interceptions each in<br />
one season since 1996 (Eugene Robinson, LeRoy Butler,<br />
Doug Evans)…With 169 interception return yards last season,<br />
joined Collins to form the second tandem in franchise<br />
history to each post 165-plus interception return yards in a<br />
season (John Symank/Dillon, 1957)...Has returned four interceptions<br />
for touchdowns with the Packers, which is tied<br />
for No. 4 in team history with Johnny (Blood) McNally and<br />
Collins...With one more interception for a score, would tie<br />
Sharper and Dillon for second on the team’s all-time list...<br />
With five defensive TDs as a member of the Packers (four<br />
interceptions, one fumble return), is tied for No. 3 with Dillon<br />
and Doug Hart on the franchise’s all-time list, trailing<br />
only Herb Adderley and Sharper, who each posted seven<br />
defensive scores...Combines with veteran CB Al Harris to<br />
give Green Bay a pair of elite cover men and is quick to<br />
credit Harris’ shutdown abilities for the playmaking opportunities<br />
that have <strong>com</strong>e his way with the Packers.<br />
D<br />
rafted fourth overall in 1998 by Oakland, was voted<br />
to the Pro Bowl his first four years in the league<br />
(1998-2001) and earned first-team All-Pro honors<br />
on three occasions – in 1999 from The Associated Press,<br />
in 2000 from Sports Illustrated and in 2001 from The<br />
Sporting News and College & Pro Football Newsweekly…<br />
Was named <strong>NFL</strong> ‘Defensive Rookie of the Year’ by The<br />
Associated Press in 1998 as well, when his five interceptions<br />
and 21 passes defensed established career-bests not<br />
topped until <strong>com</strong>ing to the Packers…Signed with Green<br />
Bay on May 1, 2006, and became the sixth Heisman Trophy<br />
winner to play for the Packers, joining (chronologically)<br />
B Bruce Smith (1945-48), B Paul Hornung (1957-62,<br />
1964-66), QB Ty Detmer (1992-95), WR Desmond Howard<br />
(1996, 1999) and QB Danny Wuerffel (2000)…Possesses<br />
a host of experience on “grand” stages, among them three<br />
244 25<br />
Ht: 6-1 Wt: 202<br />
12th <strong>NFL</strong> Season<br />
Fourth Packers Season<br />
Born: October 7, 1976<br />
<strong>NFL</strong> Gm. Played/Started: 152/149<br />
Acquired: UFA-06 (Oak)<br />
►►In three seasons with Green<br />
Bay, has 19 interceptions, more<br />
than half his career total of 36,<br />
and has scored five of his seven<br />
career touchdowns.<br />
►►Earned his fifth Pro Bowl bid<br />
in 2008 – and his first since<br />
four straight Pro Bowl years at a glance…<br />
to open his career – by posting<br />
seven interceptions, making him just the fifth Green Bay<br />
player since 1940 to have at least seven interceptions in two<br />
different seasons.<br />
►►After signing with the Packers as an unrestricted free agent<br />
in 2006, turned in his best season statistically with career<br />
highs in interceptions (8) and passes defensed (26).<br />
►►In his final season in Oakland (2005), missed 10 games with<br />
a broken leg, nearly as many games as he missed in his first<br />
seven years total (12) after being drafted fourth overall by<br />
the Raiders in 1998.<br />
►►Was voted the 1997 Heisman Trophy recipient, be<strong>com</strong>ing the<br />
first predominantly defensive player to win the award given<br />
annually to the top collegiate player. He is the sixth Heisman<br />
Trophy winner to play for the Packers, joining a group that<br />
includes Paul Hornung, Ty Detmer and another former<br />
University of Michigan standout, Desmond Howard.<br />
►►His big-game experience includes one Super Bowl (XXXVII<br />
vs. Tampa Bay), three conference championship games,<br />
five other <strong>NFL</strong> playoff contests, three collegiate bowl games<br />
including the 1998 Rose Bowl (vs. Washington State) for the<br />
co-national championship and three matchups with collegiate<br />
archrival Ohio State.<br />
►►Ironically, though he attended Michigan, is a native of the<br />
state of Ohio (Fremont).<br />
collegiate bowl games on a nationally ranked Michigan<br />
team, including a 1998 Rose Bowl victory over Washington<br />
State to sew up the co-national championship; three<br />
Michigan-Ohio State games in the annual battle between<br />
two of the country’s fiercest rivals; nine <strong>NFL</strong> playoff contests,<br />
including the 2007 NFC Championship Game and a<br />
pair of AFC Championship tilts (2000, 2002), as well as<br />
Super Bowl XXXVII to conclude the 2002 season…Has<br />
shown incredible toughness and desire to play by battling<br />
through various injuries to start 46 of 48 games the last<br />
three seasons…When necessary, will let his body recover<br />
by observing practices during the middle of the week, returning<br />
to the field for the final workout by week’s end – or<br />
perhaps even skipping that, as his broken toe in ’08 forced<br />
him to do for several weeks – and still playing at a high<br />
level in the game…Before a broken leg made him miss<br />
10 games in 2005, had missed just 12 <strong>NFL</strong> games in his<br />
career and has played in 13 or more regular-season games<br />
in nine of 11 seasons as a pro, following a collegiate career<br />
that included 34 straight games at Michigan after<br />
be<strong>com</strong>ing a starter in the second game of his true freshman<br />
season (1995)…Now has at least one interception in<br />
11 consecutive <strong>NFL</strong> seasons and has totaled 673 tackles<br />
(564 solo), including 9½ sacks and 18 forced fumbles; 36<br />
interceptions (returning six for TDs) among 141 passes<br />
defensed; eight fumble recoveries (with one TD return); a<br />
blocked field goal attempt; two receptions for 27 yards;<br />
and 86 punt returns for 708 yards (8.2 avg).
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